 Ransmayr, Christoph. Morbus Kitahara: Roman. Fischer 1995. |  Ransmayr, Christoph. Morbus Kitahara: Roman. Translated to the English as The Dog King. Knopf 1997. |
Ransmayr, Christoph. Morbus Kitahara: Roman
Title trans.: The Dog King
What if: The Morgenthau, or "Stellamour", Plan for de-industrializing Germany back to the
Middle Ages was implemented after World War II, but the war in the Pacific dragged
on for another twenty years.
Summary: In the late 1960s, the son of a village blacksmith becomes the bodyguard of a
concentration camp survivor placed in charge of a nearby quarry by the American
occupation force.
Published: Fischer 1995 (3100629086), 1997 (3596137829).
Original in: German.
Translation: English by John E. Woods as
The Dog King,
Knopf 1997 (0679450572BUY),
Vintage 1998 (0679768602BUY),
Chatto & Windus 1997 (0701166274),
and
Vintage UK 1998 (0099766914).
V.t. Morbus Kitahara,
Distribooks 1999 (3596137829).
Translation: French by Bernard Kreiss as
Le syndrôme de Kitahara, Michel 1997 (2226093893).
